Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Re: Source of the spin

> On 2021-06-29, Sven F. <sven.falempin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear readers,
>>
>> I probably did something silly again,
>> Could you help with a bit of knowledge around performance ?
>> My openbsd CPU (6.8) is spinning a lot :
>>
>> 0.0%Int 53.1%Spn 25.8%Sys 19.6%Usr 1.4%Idle

What command produces this output? It doesn't look like 'top' to me.

Thanks,

Jay

>>
>> * Is this bad ?
>> * What kind of basic operation ( like basic shell scripting ) could do that ? ?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>
> This means the kernel is spending a lot of time waiting for other CPUs
> to exit locked sections.
>
> First things first, try 6.9, the malloc cache implementation changed
> and that may help.
>
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